Stressbusters! The Mindfulness Approach.

FREE taster session this week, Thursday 10th April, 630-8. Long term stress is damaging to your health. Ongoing high levels of cortisol and other stress hormones destroy healthy muscles, bones, and cells, suppresses the immune system, impairs digestion, and weakens the endocrine system. Sleep problems, chronic head and back aches, general muscular tension, high bloodContinue reading “Stressbusters! The Mindfulness Approach.”

The Three Brained Being

The Greek – Armenian mystic Gurdjieff saw the human being as a three brained being: A head brain, or intellect; a heart brain, what we might today call emotional intelligence; and a gut or instinctive brain, which could be our “animal” intelligence, as well as kinesetic intelligence. We are far more than a mind/brain. NeuronesContinue reading “The Three Brained Being”

Neanderthal Art

These cave paintings in Cantabria, Spain, have been dated by Calcium Carbonate techniques to be more than 65000 years old. This predates the arrival of Homo sapiens in Europe by some 20-25000 years. Scientists thus believe these paintings are rare surviving examples of Neanderthal art. 19th century impressions of Neanderthals were of the “Homo Stupidus”Continue reading “Neanderthal Art”